From 74a85a1f3e8274e6cd8af2f55ca9e50d4da57cad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:35:33 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] update README with build and usage information --- libraries/Desktop/README | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/libraries/Desktop/README b/libraries/Desktop/README index 2653fc423b..a1d5b2b1d9 100644 --- a/libraries/Desktop/README +++ b/libraries/Desktop/README @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ This provides some support files for building APM on normal desktop systems. This makes it possible to use debugging tools (such as gdb and valgrind) on the APM code + +To build it do this: + + cd ArduPlane + make -f ../libraries/Desktop/Makefile.desktop hil + +currently only 'hil' builds work. + +It currently runs with the first serial port mapped to +stdin/stdout. To test it, you can use mavproxy like this: + + mavproxy.py --master=/tmp/ArduPlane/ArduPlane.elf + +that will run ArduPlane as a child process, and will give you the +ability to control ArduPlane over MAVLink.